Sec. 42.2518. ADDITIONAL STATE AID FOR HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AND LIMITATION ON TAX INCREASES. (a) Beginning with the 2017-2018 school year, a school district is entitled to additional state aid to the extent that state and local revenue under this chapter and Chapter 41 is less than the state and local revenue that would have been available to the district under Chapter 41 and this chapter as those chapters existed on September 1, 2015, excluding any state aid that would have been provided under former Section 42.2516, if the increase in the residence homestead exemption under Section 1-b(c), Article VIII, Texas Constitution, and the additional limitation on tax increases under Section 1-b(d) of that article as proposed by S.J.R. 1, 84th Legislature, Regular Session, 2015, had not occurred.
(b) The lesser of the school district's currently adopted maintenance and operations tax rate or the adopted maintenance and operations tax rate for the 2014 tax year is used for the purpose of determining additional state aid under this section.
(c) Revenue from a school district maintenance and operations tax that is levied to pay costs of a lease-purchase agreement as described by Section 46.004 and that is included in determining state assistance under Subchapter A, Chapter 46, is included for the purpose of calculating state aid under this section.
(d) The commissioner, using information provided by the comptroller and other information as necessary, shall compute the amount of additional state aid to which a district is entitled under this section. A determination by the commissioner under this section is final and may not be appealed.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 465 (S.B. 1), Sec. 17, eff. November 3, 2015.
Added by Acts 2015, 84th Leg., R.S., Ch. 465 (S.B. 1), Sec. 18, eff. September 1, 2017.
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